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- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 23 hours ago:
They’re not acting against their users, it’s just that non-enterprise consumers are a complete afterthought. I.e. less of a “fuck you” to individual consumers and more of a “who the fuck do you think you are?”.
Why market or design an OS for individual consumers when the majority of your revenue is going to come from volume licensing by manufacturers that are fulfilling bulk purchases from corporate America/higher-ed?
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 23 hours ago:
I don’t think it’s AI aversion. The problem is that Windows 11 guts the muscle memory that older consumers have built up from using prior generations of Microsoft Windows.
If a company is going to dick my over by suddenly changing/hiding/abstracting-away parts of their OS that I used to (an am used to) use on a daily basis, then I’d rather relearn a new OS from a company that doesn’t have the track record of totally redoing their entire OS in the course of a single OS generation.
If I also have a little bit more disposable income and am anticipating a poor economic downturn, I’m going with the device that I can go to a physical brick-and-mortar place and have it serviced as opposed to the crap shoot that is any other Windows-licensed manufacturer’s device.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 23 hours ago:
In what way does this imply stupidity?
- Comment on Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to lots cool stuff 3 days ago:
Your use of “it” wasn’t incorrect. English allows for grammatically correct sentences that are nevertheless potentially ambiguous.
The confusion arises because “it” refers to the antecedent noun in a sentence, and nouns are typically considered the “subject” of a sentence. However, there is also a “subject” of discussion—which shifted to being the messiness of the Windows 11 UI. Thus, “it” became a vague reference.
The only “fix” is to restate the noun to which you are attempting to refer.
For example: “I put my laptop in my bag. When I went to grab my bag, I dropped it.”
Did I drop my bag or did I drop my laptop? The answer is unclear. A clearer statement would be something like: “I put my laptop in my bag. I dropped the bag containing my laptop when I attempted to grab my bag.”
Or, “I put my laptop in my bag. When I went to grab my bag, I dropped my laptop out of the bag.”
How you phrase your meaning depends upon whichever situation you intended to convey, but the solution is to avoid the use of the word “it” entirely.
Isn’t English a wonderful language? (Sarcasm) 😁